3. Apparently only White House staff has to resign over abuse accusations. Anyone can still be president! (The American dream!)

4. GOP new plan to keep power is to just stop having elections to fill vacant seats

5. Kansas found six teenagers but only one woman to run for governor

6. You know your administration’s shit when they’re losing to North Korea at diplomacy

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4. A rare BTL showdown over whether we’re ascribing blame or credit for the shutdown this time around

5. Aziz Ansari: The moment men were like, “Wait, could #metoo involve me...too?”

6. Chris Christie is a nobody. Officially.

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January 14, 2018 @
10:59 pm

1. Is it better to be a shithole or an asshole or is it, in fact, the same? An in depth discussion.

2. Hawaii experienced WWIII alone this week thanks to men with buttons

3. Kentucky’s newest money-saving endeavor is literally just to kill poor people

4. Two convicted felons announced runs for US senate this week!

5. Even with his cool sunglasses, Joe Biden still wants you to get off his lawn

6. Some legal advice for the next Stormy Daniels. Because there will be one.

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January 10, 2018 @
12:23 am

1. Fire and Fury paints Donald Trump as exactly the kind of lazy, incompetent federal employee he most fears

2. 45 definitely isn’t a "stable genius," but he sure tried to play one on TV today

3. Fire up your iPod and blast some “Gangnam Style” because the 2012 presidential candidates are BACK and coming to a senate race near you!

4. Why do so many men brag about having destructive buttons on their desks?

5. There is something called a lizard blizzard happening in Florida, which sounds right.

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December 17, 2017 @
12:34 am

2. Net Neutrality is dead, much like the free flow of information is about to be

3. The tax bill is finally solving some vital problems for the oft-ignored zillionaire set

4. In Paul Ryan’s dystopia, corporations are people and people are cattle and cattle should start having more children to feed the corporations

5. Donald Trump thinks we believe he could ever land Kirsten Gillibrand in a million years

6. Omorosa can’t stop, wont stop being fired

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December 10, 2017 @
8:25 pm

1. The 64th and 1,052nd person have died in Puerto Rico due to the hurricane. Ask us about our math!

2. This week’s rundown of who grabbed who and who lost their job over it

3. This week’s rundown of who is still the president and future senator from Alabama

4. Sheldon Adelson’s fever dream has finally come true

5. In California, even the rain causes fires

6. The mysterious case of the man and the firebunny

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December 3, 2017 @
8:57 pm

2. GOP Tax Reform: It’s as narcissistic and self-absorbed as Donald Trump himself

3. Set your watches: the #TrumpRussia countdown to zero begins NOW

4. Sexual Assault allegations...ahem, sorry, dumb idiot men who can’t keep it in their pants...continue to ruin the things we once loved

5. North Korea. Yup.

6. Take a mental vacation in the alternate reality of FoxNews.com

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November 12, 2017 @
11:03 pm

1. You know shit is bad when local election results in Virginia can make California progressives this happy

2. Roy Moore is a pederast. Because, of course.

3. Trump and Putin don’t know what they know about what they don’t know about Russia’s election hacking

4. McConnell to America: I can’t promise this tax cut is for you

5. Shocking update: there are issues with our background check system for guns

6. Carla Nordstrom joins us on the podcast to report on upstate New York's electoral scene

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6. Trump delighted by trick-or-treating visit from un-fat children with terrible media parents

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October 22, 2017 @
10:12 pm

1. Alexander-Murray healthcare bill is the will they/wont they breakout hit of the congressional season

2. There is a chance you understand Trump’s tax reform proposal better than he does

3. Trump is one person who doesn’t know what Sgt. Johnson signed up since he never signed up for it himself

4. John Kelly hates that Rep. Wilson is hiding all of her secrets under her elaborate hats

5. DNC is either fully funded and ready for action, or broke and confused. As usual, they can’t decide on a message.

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